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NEW YORK — For now, Ashton Kutcher, the first to reach 1 million followers, is the king of Twitter. But there is a new challengerOprah. After her first “tweet” on her show Friday, she gained more than 150,000 followers in less than a day.
Kutcher, Winfrey and CNN — Kutcher’s rival in trying to reach the 1 million mark — pledged to mark the occasion by buying mosquito bed nets to combat malaria.
Kutcher had long trailed CNN, but he staged a rally in recent days that captured the attention of the Web. The million-mark race was taken by many as a symbol of huge upswing of Twitter’s popularity.
The Associated Press
